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Creator display:
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Herrera, Nicholas (American santero, born 1964)
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Creator note:
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lifeOSAU, p. 138
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Creator role:
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creator
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Date display:
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1994
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Title:
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Santa Rosalia de Palermo
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Title:
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Saint Rosalia of Palermo
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Description:
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Image of a female figure in long blue robes, holding a floral front in his left hand and a crucifix and rosary in his right hand. A skull and crossbones is featured at the figure's right foot.
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Note Fr. Steele:
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"Nick Herrera is a g-gr-nephew of Jose Ines Herrera of El Rito -- Robert Stroessner Santos of the Southwest 52-53, Shaklop Wooden Saints." | "all natural pigments (the subj was to be Rosa de Lima, Abiquiipatroness)." | "Nick was 'cover boy' for Spanish Market magazine, 1994; articles in Tradicion Revista 2/2 p27, 2/3 p28, 3/2 p47, 3/3 p90."
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Inscription:
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on front: Santa Rosalia / Nicholas Herrera
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Location name:
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New Mexico
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Materials display:
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pigment on carved wood (plant material)
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Material name:
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pigment
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Material name:
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wood (plant material)
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Source name:
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Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
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Subject term:
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Rosalia, Saint, d. 1160
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Subject type:
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Personal bibliography
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Work type:
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retablos (panel paintings)
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Acquisition note:
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1994
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Accession number:
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RU0212
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Measurements display:
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35 x 23.2 cm
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Santo Subject:
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Santa Rosalía de Palermo (Saint Rosalia of Palermo)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Female Saints
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Lived:
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Died: about 1160
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Feast Day:
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September 4
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Patronage:
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Patronage: against plague, prayed to at velorios for the dead; patroness of engaged couples; probably patroness of penance for the women auxiliaries of the Brotherhood.
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Note:
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One stanza of an alabanza praises her: "Contigo el demonio / se muestra impaciente / de ver a tu cuerpo / haces penitente -- With you the devil / shows himself exasperated / seeing that you make / your body a penitent." According to a Sicilian legend, she was a girl of good family who became a hermitess; many years after her death, she saved Palermo from a plague and so became its patroness. Wearing a black, brown, or grey dress, a crown of roses, long hair, holding a cross, usually a skull, sometimes a book or a scourge
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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